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U sing the P ersona to E xpress C omplex E motions in M usic
Author(s) -
COCHRANE TOM
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
music analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-2249
pISSN - 0262-5245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2249.2011.00321.x
Subject(s) - persona , musical , psychology , expression (computer science) , content (measure theory) , communication , social psychology , art , humanities , computer science , literature , mathematics , programming language , mathematical analysis
This article begins by arguing for the persona theory of musical experience, which claims that when we hear music as expressive of emotions, we have a sense of a persona that is in some way attached to the emotional state. The author argues that the sense of persona underlies a number of different accountsof musical expression and is generally supported by the essential experiential content of emotions. The author then explores the ways in which the listener's sense of a persona may be exploited to allow the expression of complex emotions, focussing on the emotion of jealousy and, to that end, examining two cases where the expression of that emotion has been attempted by Janáček and Piazzolla.